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This
is the fourth and final post presenting material from my (Rollin Grams')
Chapter Five: Rival Versions of Enquiry into the Pragmatic Task of Theology'
in Rival
Versions of Theological Enquiry (Prague: International Baptist
Theological Seminary, 2005).V. Three Rival Versions of
Contextual Missiology What stands as a 'modernist'
approach in mission theology and practice will for many be any approach that is
colonial, that does not respect or appreciate the local context. But a 'modernist' approach in mission theology
would probably better be described in terms of the two 'totalising narratives'
of which Francois Lyotard speaks, the idealist and the liberationist
narratives. If so, then colonial and
postcolonial mission theologies would both function as examples of a modernist
approach. The one brings its
pre-packaged 'ideology' to a new context and clears the land so as to establish
what it brings without the slightest alteration. The other…

This
is the third post presenting material from my (Rollin Grams') Chapter Five:
Rival Versions of Enquiry into the Pragmatic Task of Theology' in Rival Versions of Theological
Enquiry (Prague: International Baptist Theological Seminary,
2005). One subsequent post will continue material from this
chapter.IV.
'Theological Reflection' and the Pragmatic Task ‘Theological
reflection’ is a phrase used by various scholars for the movement in theology
that affirms beginning with practice and experience. The word 'reflection' has come into common
parlance in theological circles: 'Biblical reflection,' 'theological
reflection,' 'reflective practice.'
Behind this term is a hermeneutical position: that enquiry can be
thought of as reflection rather than, e.g., interpretation of texts, rational
argument, application of a system of belief, and so forth. Robert Kinast has explored ‘theological
reflection’ as a way of doing theology in five ‘styles’:…